Cad Wilson
	
Cad Wilson was a vaudeville entertainer on the American stage from before 1893 when she performed at the Orpheum in San Francisco. In 1894, she was the feature act at the Vienna Buffet in Los Angeles. She was not known to have a great figure, or voice, but she had hypnotic stage presence and a very elaborate wardrobe.((Michael Gates, “Cad Wilson and Such a Nice Girl, Too.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 11 October 2013. //Yukon News,// 2019 website:  https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/cad-wilson-and-such-a-nice-girl-too/)) 
	
Cad travelled north in September 1898 with her agent Robert Blei.((Michael Gates, “Cad Wilson and Such a Nice Girl, Too.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 11 October 2013. //Yukon News,// 2019 website:  https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/cad-wilson-and-such-a-nice-girl-too/)) They arrived in Dawson on the steamer //Ora.//(("Personals." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 1 October 1898.)) It was one of the last boats to come downriver from Whitehorse. Blei had managed professional theatres in Chicago, Portland and Seattle. He and Joe Cooper bought the Dawson Combination Music Hall at the end of September and renamed it the Tivoli.((Michael Gates, //Hollywood in the Klondike.// Lost Moose, 2022: 75, 77.)) Cad entertained at the Monte Carlo [Tivoli?] and her theme song, "Such a Nice Girl, Too," received "ecstasies of applause."((Yukon Archives, Victoria Faulkner, 83/50 MSS 137 f.16.)) A number of her songs were popular already, but Cad made them memorable.(("Personals." //Klondike Nugget// (Dawson), 1 October 1898.))
	
Cad Wilson left Dawson in August 1899 after Robert Blei’s theatre burned down. She was the best paid act in Dawson.((Michael Gates, “Cad Wilson and Such a Nice Girl, Too.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 11 October 2013. //Yukon News,// 2019 website:  https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/cad-wilson-and-such-a-nice-girl-too/)) She was only in Dawson for one season and left town with a reported $26,000. One time she persuaded a man known as the Sawdust King to spend $1,740 on champagne and received a healthy commission.((Yukon Archives, Victoria Faulkner, 83/50 MSS 137 f.16.)) The Eldorado miners gave her a nugget-encrusted belt that she could wrap around her waist one and a half times. She placed the belt on display in San Francisco after leaving the Klondike.((Michael Gates, “Cad Wilson and Such a Nice Girl, Too.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 11 October 2013. //Yukon News,// 2019 website:  https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/cad-wilson-and-such-a-nice-girl-too/)) Old-timer Al Loblay remembers that the belt was made of $20 gold pieces.((Yukon Archives, V. Faulkner MSS 135 83/50 f.4. Conversation with Al Loblay at age 91.)) 
	
Wilson performed in San Francisco in the fall of 1899 and went to Nome the following year to play at the Standard Theatre. She is not in the papers after that until 1908 when she and ten other women are named in a San Francisco divorce case.((Michael Gates, “Cad Wilson and Such a Nice Girl, Too.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 11 October 2013. //Yukon News,// 2019 website:  https://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/cad-wilson-and-such-a-nice-girl-too/))